Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Proverbs 30:33

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 340, footnote 6 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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On the Words of the Gospel, 'When Jesus Had Finished These Sayings,' Etc.--S. Matt. xix. 1. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3823 (In-Text, Margin)

VIII. Churn milk and it will be butter;[Proverbs 30:33] examine this and perhaps you may find something more nourishing in it. For I think that the Word here seems to deprecate second marriage. For, if there were two Christs, there may be two husbands or two wives; but if Christ is One, one Head of the Church, let there be also one flesh, and let a second be rejected; and if it hinder the second what is to be said for a third? The first is law, the second is indulgence, the third is transgression, and anything beyond this is ...